I'm having some trouble getting pgadmin3 to run on a remote server. I'm logging in to the server using SSH with the -X option. When I first installed pgadmin3, I was able to launch it using the command "pgadmin3 &", and PG Admin would launch correctly using my local X server. Something has happened though, and now PG Admin will no longer launch. It bounces back with the message "Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?"

I'm using the same SSH command to log in to the server, and the same command to launch PG Admin, yet it is no longer working. I haven't made any changes to my SSH configuration, nor have I installed any new software, so I'm at a loss as to how this broke and how to go about fixing it. What could have happened to break this, and where do I start with fixing it?

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So is DISPLAY set? (Check with echo $DISPLAY.) Can you run other X programs (e.g. xterm)? Can you run other GTK programs?
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GillesSep 20 '10 at 23:30

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